Re: Re: Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-28 Thread Alfie Costa
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:32:41 +, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:07:31AM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find constructs like ${string#*=} particularly difficult to read, since they require that I remember what all the different punctuation

Re: Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-21 Thread Alfie Costa
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find constructs like ${string#*=} particularly difficult to read, since they require that I remember what all the different punctuation characters inside this sort of parameter expansion do. According to the bash manual, there are sixteen of them, and

Re: Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-21 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:07:31AM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find constructs like ${string#*=} particularly difficult to read, since they require that I remember what all the different punctuation characters inside this sort of parameter expansion do.